Washington (AP) – a prerequisite for the senators about his potential profit from vaccination disorders, while he acted as the nation’s health secretary, said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Cancer vaccine.
Kennedy, President Donald Trump’s choice for the management of the US Health and Human Services Agency, informed the Senate Finance Committee that he would change his disclosure of ethics after several senators, including the Democrat Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts agreement The law firm, which represents patients, claim the injuries from the vaccines.
“A change in my ethics agreement is processed, and it is planned that I will sell my interest in this legal dispute,” said Kennedy in a written answer to the committee.
Initially, Kennedy had informed the committee that in legal cases in which the US government is not involved, he would continue to accept transfer fees. This included an agreement with a law firm that has sued Merck about Gardasil, his human papillomavirus vaccine that prevents cervical cancer. The deal deserved Kennedy last year 850,000 US dollars and told the senators that he had transferred hundreds of customers to the company.
During the hearing on Wednesday, Warren sketched various options, as Kennedy could easily make to sue vaccine manufacturers.
“Kennedy can kill access to vaccines and earn millions of dollars while doing it,” said Warren. “Children may die, but Robert Kennedy can continue to redeem.”
The problem could also be conflict for Senator Bill Cassidy, a Republican in Louisiana, who is also a doctor and because of his vote on Kennedy’s confirmation due to Kennedy’s anti-accyc views.
The Republican President’s candidate is “financially on the misconceplation among vaccines”, such as Cassidy, the chairman of the health committee when he ended the hearing on Thursday on Thursday.
Kennedy also stopped taking other obligations and refused to promise that he would not employ lobby and human services after the end of his term.
Kennedy and his supporters have been against this type of activities and said that the “rotating door” of Washington – in which federal civil servants exchange jobs in the federal civil servant to influence government agencies in the private sector – has undermined the US public health system. He has criticized the practice in social media posts at least half a dozen times in recent years.
Kennedy, who ran for the President last year before he dropped his offer and advocated Trump, swore in a post on X, “curb lobbyists and close the revolving door” if he was elected president.
First he asked President Joe Biden for the nomination of the Democratic President in 2024, but then ended up as independent before serving a deal to support Trump in exchange for the promise to serve in a role in health policy during a second Trump administration support. After two days of the hearings, his shot on this job with concerns about his advocacy with his consent and causes almost all Democrats to reject his nomination, and a handful of republicans who at least think about doing the same.
If the Democrats are unanimous against Kennedy, he will need support apart from three Republicans. The Senate Finance Committee is expected to decide whether to vote in the Senate next week.
Kennedy’s reaction to the Senate Committee was first reported by the New York Times.
